The MySQL Appliance

by Dustin Puryear

Well, this is nifty. A start-up named Kickfire has released a MySQL appliance. There is nothing “nifty” about a network appliance of course; that is, unless the appliance has specialized hardware and software to outperform a similarly configured in-house configured server.

And that is the point behind Kickfire.

They have designed a specialized processor for SQL servers and integrated this with MySQL using customized code. Apparently, the box screams.

I first read about this on Jason Perlow’s blog, and he goes into greater detail, including notes about how this may set a trend for appliance based SQL servers running PostgreSQL, Oracle, and even Microsoft SQL Server. MS-SQL on an appliance? Now that would really be nifty.

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